GE Competes for Top Talent in China

John Rice of General Electric works with schools in China, aiming to nurture research talent.

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... IBM leading innovation conference in Singapore Johnny me now is Jon Wright vice chairman of teen shocking to see Apollo ... John ... A was tops in the past about China and ... I wanna talk about innovation in China because well we seen on the ground a lot of foreign companies in the past ... said ... that ... China wasn't really up to a new baby coming out of me in five years ago ... when he is seen on the ground that she is a change ... it's so hard to label countries ... because the fact of the matter is we have ... fifteen hundred engineers that are Shanghai technology center that to ... do quality work ... for us in China but also collaborate globally with our engineers around the world we've ... recently opened up to smaller ... customer innovation centers in Chengdu and she on ... in a hundred hundred and fifty people each so that we can be closer to our customers ... I don't see any difference in the quality of the idea is the quality of the work that comes from these groups of people ... then we see anywhere else in the world and I ... I just really resist labeling I ... labeling ... the country because I think it's really hard to do that ... what about Iran sharing resources at a foreign company and Chinese working in China and the number one complaint is kind and take the human resource issue you know it's it's getting the right people for the right jobs ... I mean I'm anti GE has RMT in China and to find that on top ... of its competitors ... but look I would have a similar complaint in thirty different countries ... is your aspiration is always to get the best ... in the best people with you wanna talk about the United States or Singapore Hong Kong or ... China or Indonesia or India ... the best people have options and you have to put ... a really good value proposition problem ... and in China in particular there has been an emergence the last ten years of local champions ... really good quality local companies that now we have to compete with for people so ... we gotta be at the top of our game ... but if we are ... weekend ... when when when our share of the stuff really competitive ... what's a lot on the ground team had I'm you know people outside China coming in and Cheney and what is that the howdy how does one even go about setting up IRD in China ... well you touched on one of the important point in terms of how you attract the right people in and encourage them to join GE and that's ... the opportunity to learn and grow trainee is really an important aspect ... of how or what ... Chinese people around you ... so if you are known for leadership development and training that ... helps alot ... having relationships with key schools ... picking ... a few schools that you can have a strategic relationship with the gifted of the professors anew ... he developed a reputation on campus ... and there is of ... no more right so people that you hire two or three years ago refer their ... their younger classmates ... to you that that helps a lot to ... what is the day his derriere in China and that you're facing today ... in terms of innovation ... up ... look I think of the barrier it's not really a barrier in China it's ... it's how do you take ... it would get eighteen thousand people in China ... and how do you take the ideas and plug them into a global innovation systems because it's ... it's not just ... inventing things in China for China anymore a few years ago was ... now it's it's how you have these bright people ... plug in to ... the global collaboration of global innovation system that plays off the Straits of those people in China ... their colleagues in India ... other people in the United States ... and and that's the way the best innovations ordinator created in a company like now ... she ... totally ... totally in it ... it's it's not a border thing you knew that it doesn't happen just in one country ... everything we do involves ... activities in multiple countries great thanks Fran Eckstein ...